On view Friday, June 13 through Sunday, August 31, 2003, Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation is a wonderfully emotive exhibition featuring over 60 original, bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin, one of the world’s most celebrated artists. The exhib ition will be launched by a formal dinner and a private preview on the night of June 12 for the Art Center’s generous supporters who help form the Blockbuster Partnership. The Art Center will also host a champagne and dessert reception for Art Center members during the evening of Saturday, June 14. A free, public, Family Reception will be offered on Sunday, June 22 with many fun and interactively-charged activities the entire family is sure to enjoy. Like the vast majority of the fantastic exhibitions at the Art Center, admission to this important exhibition is free, so please join us in celebrating the beautiful artworks of Rodin.

Interiors/Exteriors, Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection brings together many of the Art Center's most important and challenging artworks. Beginning with Christo's Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Project) and Douglas Burg's Untitled, one sees the exterior surfaces of the depicted subjects obstructed and partially concealed by tightly wrapped plastic: the exterior surfaces that were once exposed to the viewer are strangely transformed into an ambiguous internal world.

On view at the Sioux City Art Center from March 15 to May 25, 2003 is Karl Bodmer’s Eastern Views: A Journey in North America — an exhibition showcasing the work of 19th-century Swiss artist Karl Bodmer and his views of the eastern United States of the early 1830s, from Boston to St. Louis, that offer a unique window on a yo ung, vast, and rapidly changing nation.

The Sioux City Art Center proudly presents "..you sure about this place?", a multi-media, group show including works by Valerie Hegarty, Imi Knoebel, Chad Marsh, Gordon Matta-Clark, Heather Mekkelson, Blinky Palermo, Julio Rondo, and Gerold Tagwerker. The exhibition will be on view Saturday, March 8 through May 25, 2003, with a free, public reception Saturday, March 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. A gallery talk with the exhibition’s co-collaborators will begin at 6:30 p.m. reception night.

On view at the Sioux City Art Center from Saturday, February 22 through Sunday, May 11, 2003, Presence in Absence: Recent Paintings by Laurel Farrin showcases 17 new paintings by artist and University of Iowa painting professor, Laurel Farrin. A free, public reception will be held on Saturday, March 15 from 5 t o 7 p.m., with a gallery talk by Farrin at 6 p.m.

Soft, colorful, biomorphic shapes appear in the foregrounds of Farrin's new paintings. Some are coupled with seemingly identical forms, while others grow in complexity and multiply across the picture plane. Illusionistic creases, folds, and impressions providing a believable sense of weight and weightlessness surround the irrationally shaped forms.

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